STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The City Council passed two controversial bills increasing oversight of the NYPD, as well as passing a $70 billion budget and overriding a mayoral veto of paid-sick-leave legislation, in a lengthy, late-night meeting Wednesday into Thursday.

Staten Island's Council delegation was split on the NYPD bills, which dominated discussion at the red-eye meeting.

The Council began discussing the issues about 11:30 p.m., when the stated meeting began, and the votes were tallied at 2:28 a.m.

While the budget was on the agenda, it was the NYPD bills that took up most of the debate -- and the time -- at the hearing, as members offered their personal tales of being stopped and frisked, or countered that the bills would make police timid and the city less safe.

The Community Safe Act has two thrusts: One bill establishes an inspector general for the NYPD; the other tightens racial profiling laws, allowing citizens to file suit, though not for money, to allege a police tactic had a disparate impact on certain groups.

Some Council members -- including Speaker Christine Quinn -- split their votes between the two parts of the Community Safe Act.

Ms. Rose said she didn't think anyone could leave the Council hearing Thursday morning without understanding what it's like to live "in communities that seem to be under siege, just because of the color of their skin, the fact of their religion, or the fact that they are LGBT."

Earlier in the meeting, before she cast her vote, Ms. Rose said Stop, Question and Frisk can be an investigative tool -- but had become a quota, and that "creates a serious constitutional issue for every citizen."

Ms. Rose said the legislation isn't about micromanaging police.

"It is about legitimate oversight in making our city safer," Ms. Rose said. "We all want a Police Department that inspires the trust and confidence of every New Yorker, and we need to make sure that we give them the resources, tools, training and oversight to make sure that happens."

In support of the bill he authored, Councilman Jumaane Williams implored Council members who don't live in or represent districts where people are subjected to stop-and-frisk to listen to their concerns and vote with them.

"Historically, there has been a paternalistic response to communities saying what they need to assist them," Williams said. "And people who do not represent them and live there say, 'We know better than you, even though you live it.'"

Councilmen James Oddo (R-Mid-Island/Brooklyn) and Vincent Ignizio (R-South Shore) voted against the measures.

Oddo said he likes and respects Williams -- who authored the bills and delivered a rousing speech in their support. And he said there was damage to the relationship between police and many communities.

"I think we have to be vigilant in always trying to repair those relationships," Oddo said. "I just don't believe these two bills do that ."

He said he worries about the impact of the bills on individual officers, whose changes in behavior the city could never measure the cost of.

"I recognize the intent behind these bills, I just think this will lead to problems we have had in the past," Oddo said. "I think we are sowing the seeds to expedite that return of a culture that makes an incredibly difficult job almost impossible to do and I think that's a bad thing for the city."

Ignizio thanked the men and women of the NYPD for their work "putting their lives on the line for us every day."

Clearly, he said, there is an issue around Stop, Question and Frisk that needs to be discussed.

"Perhaps these bills, while I'm opposed to them, may foster the dialogue necessary," he said.

But the bills could lead to police officers pursuing crime less aggressively, Ignizio said -- potentially not pursuing someone who would go on to commit a crime.

"We all want better policing, myself included, but I think the way to do it is to ensure we have a constructive dialogue throughout the city about best practices in the Police Department," Ignizio said -- and the NYPD needs to come to the table, too, instead of ignoring requests from the Council, he said.

The Council also adopted the $70 billion budget, agreed to by Speaker Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg on Sunday. It contains no tax hikes, restores funding for libraries, pools and firehouses, and earmarks $250 million for storm resiliency after Hurricane Sandy. including more than $50 million for the Island.

The Council also overrode Bloomberg's veto of a bill mandating that businesses offer paid sick time to their employees -- something that came for a vote after three years in the works, and being held off the floor by Speaker Quinn due to her opposition. A compromise version of the bill finally got a vote -- overwhelmingly in favor -- in May.

Ms. Quinn, in voting against the racial profiling bill, said she didn't think it would make the city less safe. She was concerned about the timing, considering the lawsuit in federal court against stop-and-frisk.

"I worry about having too much judicial involvement," she said.---Follow @siadvance on Twitter, join us on Facebook